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PostgreSQL

target-postgres (meltano variant)🥈

PostgreSQL database loader

The target-postgres loader

This plugin is deprecated and not recommended for use. Please use another variant.

sends data into PostgreSQL after it was pulled from a source using an extractor

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Getting Started

Prerequisites

If you haven't already, follow the initial steps of the Getting Started guide:

Installation and configuration

Add the target-postgres loader to your project using
```
meltano add
```
:

meltano add loader target-postgres --variant meltano

Configure the target-postgres settings using

meltano config

:

meltano config target-postgres set --interactive

Next steps

Follow the remaining steps of the Getting Started guide:

Run a data integration (EL) pipeline

If you run into any issues, learn how to get help.

Capabilities

This plugin currently has no capabilities defined. If you know the capabilities required by this plugin, please contribute!

Settings

The target-postgres settings that are known to Meltano are documented below. To quickly find the setting you're looking for, click on any setting name from the list:

dbname
host
password
port
schema
url
user

You can also list these settings using

meltano config

with the list subcommand:

meltano config target-postgres list

You can override these settings or specify additional ones in your meltano.yml by adding the settings key.

Please consider adding any settings you have defined locally to this definition on MeltanoHub by making a pull request to the YAML file that defines the settings for this plugin.

Database Name (dbname)

Environment variable: TARGET_POSTGRES_DBNAME
Default Value: warehouse

[No description provided.]

Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config target-postgres set dbname [value]

Host (host)

Environment variable: TARGET_POSTGRES_HOST
Default Value: localhost

[No description provided.]

Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config target-postgres set host [value]

Password (password)

Environment variable: TARGET_POSTGRES_PASSWORD
Default Value: warehouse

[No description provided.]

Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config target-postgres set password [value]

Port (port)

Environment variable: TARGET_POSTGRES_PORT
Default Value: 5502

[No description provided.]

Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config target-postgres set port [value]

Schema (schema)

Environment variable: TARGET_POSTGRES_SCHEMA
Default Value: $MELTANO_EXTRACT__LOAD_SCHEMA

Note that $MELTANO_EXTRACT__LOAD_SCHEMA will expand to the value of the load_schema extra for the extractor used in the pipeline, which defaults to the extractor's namespace, e.g. tap_gitlab for tap-gitlab.

Name of the schema where the tables will be created. If schema_mapping is not defined then every stream sent by the tap is loaded into this schema.

Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config target-postgres set schema [value]

URL (url)

Environment variable: TARGET_POSTGRES_URL

Lets you set user, password, host, port, and dbname in one go using a postgresql:// URI.

Takes precedence over the other settings when set.

Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config target-postgres set url [value]

User (user)

Environment variable: TARGET_POSTGRES_USER
Default Value: warehouse

[No description provided.]

Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config target-postgres set user [value]

Troubleshooting

`ld`, `clang`, `lssl`, or `linker` Errors

If you have an error message like:

ld: library not found for -lssl
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1
error: command 'clang' failed with exit status 1

These error messages indicates that there is a problem installing OpenSSL.

This Stack Overflow answer has specific recommendations on setting the LDFLAGS and/or CPPFLAGS environment variables. Set those prior to running meltano add loader target-postgres.

Something missing?

This page is generated from a YAML file that you can contribute changes to.

Edit it on GitHub!

Looking for help?

If you're having trouble getting the target-postgres loader to work, look for an existing issue in its repository, file a new issue, or join the Meltano Slack community and ask for help in the

#plugins-general

channel.

Install

meltano add loader target-postgres --variant meltano

Maintenance Status

Repo

https://github.com/meltano/target-postgres

Maintainer

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